Month: November 2010

Gardening, Uncategorized

One mess of a system Tuesday. Some places got Moderate rain while others got up to 5″ of snow!

Heavy snow that fell right after we got moderate rain November 29th. We had one heck of a messy system in the area Monday and Tuesday, going from rain to snow. A strong winter storm system moved across the Upper Midwest bringing significant snows to Northern Minnesota while the warm side hit Western Wisconsin. The …

Gardening, Uncategorized

Rain and Snow likely for Monday some places could get up to 6″ Also much colder and windy by Tuesday.

Regional View Yet another complex winter storm system is on the way for the Upper Midwest for this week. It appears to be following nearly the same path as the last one, bringing significant snowfall possibilities to Western and Northeastern Minnesota, and far Northwest Wisconsin a chance at significant snow. South of the Minor snowfall …

Gardening, Uncategorized

A taste of January. Cold tempeture report.

Real Palm tree, last day uncovered November 24th A winter weather storm system spread arctic air behind it and gave us our first taste of January this weekend. The Temperature fell quickly from 32.F at my location Wednesday Night, to middle 6.F with in hours of the passing of the cold front. Daytime highs were …

Winter Weather

Freezing Rain Advisory until 4pm (now 6pm)

UPDATED at 3:50pm The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a Freezing Rain Advisory effective until 6pm for the following counties, Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa, Jones and Linn. …FREEZING RAIN OVERSPREADING EASTERN IOWA THIS AFTERNOON… .A COMPLEX WINTER STORM SYSTEM WAS SPREADING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH FREEZING RAIN ACROSS EASTERN IOWA …